Please tell me I won't be forced to work on that Ichiban company

[Igris]

This is probably the worst part of the game imo, I legit HATE this sh*t, please tell me this stupid managment quest won't be apart of the main story.

[SgtSepticLemon]

Technically, no. But...

Getting a Business rank of 100 or higher unlocks the game's optional character, Eri Kamataki, who's really good with the Dealer class. Then, I believe, getting the top rank unlocks one of the most powerful summons in the game. Not to mention that once you start getting a lot of money in it starts making easy money that you can use to buy stuff in the game. When I first tried out the business sim in the game, it was a little daunting, but this Youtube video explains how to play it WAY better than what the game itself does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Fwd7LZJs0

[SgtSepticLemon]

Oh! Another thing!

The video explains that you should complete the Baseball star quest before starting the Business Management as that unlocks a really good employee early on. Once you get him, he's really good a leader, and during meetings he can pretty much defeat the early investors in two hits.

[OnlyOffensive]

that character doesnt even participate in story cutscenes or anything, so no big loss. Its not like you will lack characters anyway, but getting at least 100 shouldnt be hard.

btw dealer has to be most boring job, no combos, no prompts just plain abilities.

Managing itself is pretty easy, all you need to do is winning on shareholders meetings and don't have negative profit, which i don't think even possible unless you completely mess up.

[CLL]

It made me anxious at first but heres a tip. Early on make sure to max the starting bussiness, itll help a lot

[Sharkon]

I feel you. I don't like the Business Minigame either compared to the Host Stuff in some of the older games but the rewards are worth it later on.

easy money early on, the second best DD party member with the highest DEX (perfect for Matriarch or Dealer) and the two final skills at Business Rank 1 (for Eri and Ichi).

it's not a part of the main story but adds some substories and makes life easier in the late game.

[LinK]

As far as I can tell you can ignore it after that first little bit it makes you do. I too think it's fcking stupid. I was literally saying out loud to my self "Stop wasting my time! I'm here to play, not do btch tier chores!".

[Zergem]

Oh man, I actually struggled to pull myself away from the management minigame. I can see why it's not everyone's cup of tea though.

[dancingstar93]

Originally posted by Nokrahs:

I feel you. I don't like the Business Minigame either compared to the Host Stuff in some of the older games but the rewards are worth it later on.

I'd rank it below Zero / K2 cabaret club, but way above Zero real estate, 3 / 4 hostess maker, 6 Clan Creator & baseball management (K2 made Clan Creator a lot less grindy; in 6 it's one of the better sources of money late-game / post-game).

easy money early on, the second best DD party member with the highest DEX (perfect for Matriarch or Dealer) and the two final skills at Business Rank 1 (for Eri and Ichi).

it's not a part of the main story but adds some substories and makes life easier in the late game.

Hell, it makes life easier in the mid-game when Nanba leaves the party for a while before Han and Zhao join, so the only way to have a full battle team for a while is if Eri has joined.

[ByTheNumbers]

The minigame isn't as fun as the cabaret club biz and it has been very trivial so far. However, it does give me quite a bit of money to buy upgrades and the like, so I feel like it's worth doing, at least.

[Sentient_Toaster]

It's the easiest repeatable money source until you're a fair bit later into the game.

For Y7, it was the only mini-game I interacted much with at all. I really didn't care to hit the batting cages, minigolf, or claw machines after Y0/YK/YK2 at least.

[OnlyOffensive]

Originally posted by Nokrahs:

I feel you. I don't like the Business Minigame either compared to the Host Stuff in some of the older games but the rewards are worth it later on.

easy money early on, the second best DD party member with the highest DEX (perfect for Matriarch or Dealer) and the two final skills at Business Rank 1 (for Eri and Ichi).

it's not a part of the main story but adds some substories and makes life easier in the late game.

idk why you think dealer is best dd. What ability even best? Its pretty boring class that has no prompts with average damage and bad buffs/debuffs, might be fun for some time for some rng but thats it. I feel like people don't even count "mage" dd lol, which can be ridiciolus with proper gear and inherit.

From my perspective saeko hostess is better damage than any dealer, not to mention it actualy has usefull abilities for party, which becomes more important the more you progress. Even hero can't do all alone.

That character is decent, i mean its always nice to have more, but i think its best use in his exclusive class, just for debuffs and high chance bleed.

To be completely honest, there are already really good dd classes, that do good damage without rng, and have control or buffs, dealer has nothing, just average damage and some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ single target buffs/debuffs.

[Sharkon]

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

Originally posted by Nokrahs:

I feel you. I don't like the Business Minigame either compared to the Host Stuff in some of the older games but the rewards are worth it later on.

easy money early on, the second best DD party member with the highest DEX (perfect for Matriarch or Dealer) and the two final skills at Business Rank 1 (for Eri and Ichi).

it's not a part of the main story but adds some substories and makes life easier in the late game.

idk why you think dealer is best dd. What ability even best? Its pretty boring class that has no prompts with average damage and bad buffs/debuffs, might be fun for some time for some rng but thats it. I feel like people don't even count "mage" dd lol, which can be ridiciolus with proper gear and inherit.

From my perspective saeko hostess is better damage than any dealer, not to mention it actualy has usefull abilities for party, which becomes more important the more you progress. Even hero can't do all alone.

That character is decent, i mean its always nice to have more, but i think its best use in his exclusive class, just for debuffs and high chance bleed.

To be completely honest, there are already really good dd classes, that do good damage without rng, and have control or buffs, dealer has nothing, just average damage and some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ single target buffs/debuffs.

Hitman is to me is the best DD in the game, followed by the Matriarch (with Eri as Char).

I just mentioned that the Dealer offers some good Skills that go well with Eri's high Dexterity but Matriarch is the best for. Insane slash DMG single and AE as well as a great ATTK debuff.

my chars learned every Job available to them for the bonus skills as well so if I say "best" it means the final Job to go with at 99/99 with EX EX Weapons.

however, this is only for my personal playstyle after testing every Job in the game and for NG+ Legend lategame and the finale Towers.

to just beat the game in normal mode it doesn't matter much anyways, pick what you like the most and have a good time with it.

[OnlyOffensive]

hitman also has paralyse/stun/sleep, while dealer has no control at all, it's really bad class that do nothing but damage and random buffs/debuffs on one target that have 2/5 chance to be useless (even worse on debuffs) but i keep seeing that dealer is good. Like let me buff hitman, oh right it landed magic or healing up, nice turn, oh right i can just use drinks for single target buff for desirable effect. I just don't see how dealer can be any use in party unless you just going around city doing random encounters for fun.

[fejota]

I find it funny using Eri with her exclusive job (clerk) beating enemies with box cutters and using office materials with her skills.
That being said it makes some chapters between 5 and 10 easier because of some character leaving the party by then and, when the company is rank 1, you will have an income of 3 milion yen running the minigame 4 times + beat the shareholders meeting (it seems much time, but you can hold R2 to speed up the business cicle. It would take only a couple of minutes doing the 4 mentioned runs + the meeting). You will need more than 20 milion yen to fully upgrade Romance workshop.
The minigame is also very easy if you had purchased the management set.

[Geist]

I had completely forgot about it till I was on Chapter 9 or so. Got the character and probably wont bother with it again unless I want to change her job. If I had done it earlier like fejota said then yeah things would have been a little easier lol.